15 March 2016

Pope Francis
set the canonization date Tuesday, paving the way for the nun who cared
for the poorest of the poor to become the centerpiece of his yearlong
focus on the Catholic Church's merciful side.

The
announcement was expected after Francis in December approved a second
miracle attributed to Mother Teresa's intercession — the final hurdle to
make her a saint. The actual date falls on the eve of the 19th
anniversary of her death.

Anita Brookner, a Booker Prize-winning novelist who explored the emotional undercurrents of quiet lives, has died at 87.

A death notice in Tuesday's edition of The Times newspaper said Brookner died peacefully in her sleep on Thursday.

Born
in London in 1928, the only child of Polish Jewish parents, Brookner
began her career as an art historian — specializing in French art — and
was the first woman to be named Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge
University.

Pope Francis
set the canonization date Tuesday, paving the way for the nun who cared
for the poorest of the poor to become the centerpiece of his yearlong
focus on the Catholic Church's merciful side.

The
announcement was expected after Francis in December approved a second
miracle attributed to Mother Teresa's intercession — the final hurdle to
make her a saint. The actual date falls on the eve of the 19th
anniversary of her death.

British mathematician Sir Andrew J. Wiles has won the Abel Prize in math for cracking a centuries-old hypothesis.

Norway's
Academy of Science and Letters said Tuesday he was given the annual
award "for his stunning proof of (French mathematician Pierre de)
Fermat's Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for
semi-stable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory."

It
said in 1994, the 62-year-old cracked the theorem, which was "the most
famous, and long-running, unsolved problem in the subject's history." It
was first conjectured by de Fermat in 1637.

Wiles, who has
honorary degrees from a string of British and American universities,
including Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia and Yale, will receive the 6
million kroner ($710,000) award at a ceremony on May 24 in Oslo.